Showing results for "Albert" in Crime Fiction

When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.

നൈൽ നദിയിലെ ഒരു ക്രൂയിസ് കപ്പൽ യാത്രയ്ക്കിടയിൽ സുന്ദരിയും പരിഷ്‌കാരിയുമായ ലിനറ്റ് റിഡ്‌ജ്വേ കൊല്ലപ്പെടുന്നു. ഹെർക്യൂൾ പൊയ്‌റോട് എങ്ങിനെയാണ് ഈ കൊലപാതകം തെളിയിക്കുക!

A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Gate mansion by experts, all the while under the especial protection of the British government. One morning, however, the Turkish officials are found dead in the house, and the diamonds have vanished - despite the strict measures taken to protect them. The first suspicion falls on Jack Talbot, a young secretary at the Foreign Office, in whose charge this mission was, because he also disappeared without a trace on the same evening.

Ella und Johann Schores haben, seit die Kinder aus dem Haus sind, ein Zimmer zu viel und, im Vergleich zu den Nachbarn, einen Fernseher zu wenig. "Holt euch doch einen Untermieter ins Haus," rät die dicke Frau Birkel vom Beutelweg, "da habt ihr Abwechselung und Zubrot noch dabei." Doch wie wird man einen Untermieter wieder los, der sich als rücksichtsloser Ganove entpuppt, der einem das Leben zur Hölle macht, den Aufgesetzten wegsäuft und dem geliebten Hundchen ans Leben will? Wenn gutes Zureden nichts nutzt, wird eine Mordgeschichte daraus.

IL Y A CERTAINS VOYAGES DONT ON NE REVIENT PAS... Ce livre contient une sélection des plus beaux spécimens de meurtres en mouvement de la littérature policière. Le Train perdu, Conan Doyle. Le Crime de l'omnibus, Fortuné de Boisgobey. Les Tribulations de Jacques Cravant, inventeur, Albert-Auguste Péron. Le Compagnon de voyage, Tristan Bernard. La Charrette de la mort, Jean-Joseph Renaud.

Campion investigates once more, but this time he is on the run from the police - classic British crime writing at its best. Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty's government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognise even his faithful servant Lugg or his own fiancée

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman. At first Campion is unwilling to get involved, but he is forced to bring his powers of protection to bear on the case, and to solve not only the mystery of the murdered woman but also the alarming disappearance of some well-known art treasures.

When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some complex family dynamics, to solve the case.

Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career.As urbane as Lord Wimsey.as ingenious as Poirot. Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife's lover, the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? And what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before?

La sospechosa muerte de un joven hace cuarenta años nunca fue resuelta, y hay alguien que no desea que caiga en el olvido Cuando el estudiante Marcus Nielsen es hallado muerto en su apartamento, todo parece indicar que se trata de un suicidio, pero su madre está segura de que ha sido...

Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it’s the price of his freedom. He knows Black can’t be trusted. He knows his “brother” would rather see him dead than let him walk away. Yet he still agrees to do the job because Black isn’t the only one who can’t be trusted. Sometimes you have to kill for what you want. Further developing the stark realism and uncompromising streetwise narratives of his lyrics, H.N.I.C. cements Prodigy’s position as one of the foremost chroniclers of contemporary urban life.

Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peter's body goes missing. It takes all Campion's coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

Im München der Wilden Zwanziger riskieren eine Autorin und ihr Bruder Kopf und Kragen: ein rasanter Historienthriller der Drehbuch- und Romanautorin Katharina Lang und den Machern der Podcast-Sitcom JOUR FIXE – Die Startupper, Albert Bozesan und Robert Sladeczek.

Unos sucesos inesperados están a punto de arrollar al policía Rayhan Márquez como un tren de cercanías. En cuestión de horas se verá obligado a tomar una decisión trascendental: respaldar a un hombre al que respeta y considera su amigo o hacer lo correcto y denunciarle. Al mismo tiempo, le asignan el escenario de un crimen que pronto se desvelará como el primero de un asesino en serie, uno al que no parece importarle causar el mayor dolor a sus víctimas.

Un crimen más en el supuesto paraíso de Benidorm. Pero cuando la atractiva heredera de la pareja asesinada se presenta en la redacción de la revista madrileña "Reporter", Carlos Albert, periodista de investigación desterrado a la sección de sucesos, no dudará en seguirla por las rutas sinuosas de la memoria. Un periplo que les conducirá a los fantasmas de 1962, cuando los miembros del Estado Mayor de la OAS, tras perder la última batalla contra la independencia de Argelia, encontraron en la España de Franco un santuario desde donde desatar la violencia y los negocios sucios.

Cobdícia, venjança, ira, luxúria, gelosia, fanatisme, defensa pròpia i malícia genuïna s'entortolliguen en aquesta teranyina teixida amb set relats breus. Amb les "mans" com a fil conductor, l'inspector Marc Sergiot apareix en cada conte: sigui amb un protagonisme manifest en la investigació, o només ensumant la ferum del crim. Mans negres són set narracions criminals que disseccionen les parts més fosques de la naturalesa humana.

Un periodista infiltrado en una banda de narcotraficantes, un portero de discoteca y un policía corrupto. El periodista Ignacio Escolar se sirve de estos tres personajes para plantear una trama de asesinatos y droga en la mejor tradición de la novela negra. Escrita con buen pulso y con final impactante, esta historia corta no deja indiferente al lector.

Friedrich Glauser, der "schweizerische Simenon", war wegen Morphiumsucht in der psychiatrischen Anstalt Waldau interniert, als er 1934/35 eine Kultfigur der Kriminalliteratur schuf: den behäbigen Berner Detektivwachtmeister Studer. Strafversetzt und bei seinen Vorgesetzten in dauernder Ungnade, sieht Studer in den Delinquenten eher Verführte als Verbrecher.